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By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb.

23.—Congressional

against administration leadership proceeded unabated today despite Washington birthday unity pleas by President Roose-

velt and Vice President Henry A. Wallace and warnings “= against playing politics with the war emergency.

Mr. Roosevelt: spoke from the White House last night and Mr. Wallace at a fund raising dinner at the Mayflower

hotel. The addresses were part- of a nation-wide fund raising campaign centered

~ around 35 or 40 Democratic

dinners. Both warned. against premature confidence that the united nations have the axis on the run, although Mr. Wallace said Germany could be defeated this year and Japan in th “second round.” :

Wallace Demands “Loyalty”

Their words were aimed primarily at the home political front. Mr. Roosevelt hit hard at ‘“‘skeptics and cynics.” Mr. Wallace warned Republicans that they must behave “as a loyal opposition.” Meantime, a congressional coalition of Democrats and Republicans is moving to seize control of the house on important issues. The rebelliont -against the administration is on a substantial front involving labor legislation, spending, manpower, taxes and the exercise of vast powers by the executive department. Some complaint against the stringency of processed foods rationing seems to be in the making. : * An attack on “talk” of unity came from Capt. Edward W. Rickenbacker, addressing the New York state legislature in Albany, N. Y. Any administration that demands unity, [he said, must begin by setting an example of unity. He denounced “the inner clique of bureaucracy . + » thinking only of a fourth term,” and “the aristocracy of labor unionism... . thinking only of more dues and more power.”

Charges “Cynics” With Treason

Mr. Wallace qualified his victory prediction this way: “Men in a position to know helieve that if the people of the United States and England put forth’ the same unified, all-out effort that now is being displayed by the magnificent Russians, Germany can be defeated in 1943.” 3 Mr. Roosevelt compared Washington’s revolutionary - war problem with his own and said that some of the “skeptics and cynics” then, at least, were guilty of treason. Touching cautiously on the manpower dispute now marring congressional relations with the White House, tle president recalled that some of Washington’s soldiers at critical times “would decide to return to their homes to get the plowing done or the crops harvested.”

Doubled Ordinary Man’s Ability

He said that some Americans sneered at the principles of the declaration of independence, calling it impractical and idealistic to claim that “‘all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.’ ” , : “The skeptics, the cynics of Washington's day,” he continued, “did not believe.that ordinary men and women have the capacity for freedom and self-government. They said that liberty and equality were idle dreams that could not come true—just as today there are many ericans who sneer at the determination to attain freedom from want and freedom from fear on the ground that these are ideals which

can never be realized. They: say it]

is ordained that we must always have poverty and that we must always have war. . . “We Americans today know that there would have béen no success-

- ful outcome of the revolution, which

gave us liberty, had it not been for George Washington's faith and the

* fact that that faith overcame. the

bickerings and confusion and doubts which skeptics and cynics provoked.

“Dozens of Benedict Arnolds”

“When kind history books tell us of ‘Benedict Arnold, they omit dozens of other Americans who, beyond peradventure of doubt, were also guilty of treason.” Warning against over-optimism, Mr. Roosevelt conceded that “great

successes on the Russian front have|.

led thousands of Americans to throw

their hats in the air and proclaim |.

that victory is just around the corner.” Similarly, Mr. Wallace warned that we will have to harness “every spiritual and material resource” to win the war. And even more directly than Mr. Roosevelt, he called for “loyalty” among the opposition here at home and warned against “catering to comforts at home.” “This does not mean that we cannot speak our minds freely,” he

said. “Within the limits of the necessities of war, freedom of speech and freedom of the press prevail as always, and anyone has the right to express himself, “But I am sure the public means business, and will have little faith in any political party which puts partisan advantage above the national welfare. That places upon the Democratic majority in our government the responsibility for pushing.on to victory in the war, and for abstaining from bitter attacks on partisan opponents. And it places upon the Republican minority the responsibility for really behaving as a loyal opposition and abstaining from tactics which are purely political. The American publie will not forget, and will not condone, any attempts to use the unavoidable shortages and restrictions of wartime for a partisan campaign te undermine confidence in the government.”

SEE LIGHT POLLING FOR GHICAGO MAYOR

CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (U. P.).—Chicago's Kelly-Nash Democratic machine confidently faced another test of strength today in the city’s mayoral primary elections. A light vote was forecast. Mayor Edward J. Kelly, seeking renomination for his third full

term, was opposed in the Democratic primary by Alderman John S. Boyle, former assistant state's attorney and a leader among antiorganization Democrats. In the Republican primary, the party organization supported George B. McKibben, attorney on leave of absence from his post ds director of the state finance department. Opposing McKibben were John H. Lyle, former municipal judge, and Arthur F. Albert, former alderman. Less than half of the city’s 1,750,000 registered voters were expected to cast ballots.

MME. CHIANG WINS NEW HELP FOR CHINA

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U.P.).— Mme. Chiang Kai-shek today continued her “offensive” in Washington, winning victories right and life. With every public appearance, her reputation as a brilliant woman and a super-saleswoman has increased. No foreign visitor since Prime Minister Churchill has caught on quite so well. The growing feeling that Mme. Chiang’s visit is producing practical results was supported to some extent by an announcement of Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. that increased aid to China is an actuality and not just a high-sounding promise. Meantime, her brother, Dr. T. V. Soong, Chinese foreign minister, returned to Washington from Chung-

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F. D. R. ON RADIO FOR RED CROSS SUNDAY

WASHINGTON; Feb. 23 (U. P.).— ‘The white house has announced that President Roosevelt will make a brief radio address next Sunday on & Red Cross program launching the organization's drive to raise $125,000,000. Red Cross headquarters said that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, com-mander-in-chief of allied forces in North Africa, and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, .commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, will speak on the same program, Gen Eisenhower from - North Africa and Admiral Nimitz from the Pacific war theater,

JAPS SEIZE FRENCH CHINA CONCESSIONS

By UNITED PRESS Radio Tokyo said today that the French Vichy government has agreed to surfender all its territorial rights in China to the Japanese puppet government at Nanking. Tokyo, quotting a Vichy dispatch, said the French had given up jurisdicial privileges and French administrative rights in such areas as the legation district in Pekin; the interantional concessions in Shanghai and Kulangschu island, Tientsin, Hankow and Canton.

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NONE WEEPS AT AGENCY'S BIER

‘Nearly Everybody Hated Us,’ Jennings Says in Farewell.

By NOBLE REED

The funeral Cortege of the remains of a $300,000,000 social experiment was passing through Indiana today and nobody was paying any attention to it—not a flag was lowered. In the coffin was unmourned WPA, the most hated, maligned and the most criticized function of government in all history. “Yet it will go down in future history as saving the country from more terrible consequences than people realized,” reflected John K. Jennings, retiring Indiana director of the agency. :

Jennings Isn’t- Bitter

Even -the director himself was not mourning WPA'’s demise and he was not in the least bitter toward thousands of critics who lashed at him constantly from every direction, even tapping his personal telephone wires once to “get some evidence against me.” “I realize it was the price I had to pay for my desire to see that no one went hungry and unclothed in a land of plenty,” he said. “Practically every one hated us, even the government that sponsored us and the very people we tried. to keep fed, clothed and housed when they had no other place to turn, not to mention, of course, the taxpayers who were paying the hill, “Why, there wasn’t a man in public office who dared risk his career by saying anything nice about .us.

Recalls Criticisms

“The people we made jobs for to keep their homes intact, kicked us because we didn’t get them better

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Mr. Jennings recalled criticsms about the kind of work being done. “Sure we raked leaves . . we not only gave men jobs raking up leaves on one pile but we hired more men to rake them all over again and ut them on another pile. “Why? It can be told now , , « it was to keep mobs from forming in the streets and throwing rocks through the windows of more fortunate citizens. “Our social system not so many years ago was nearer collapse than people realized and whether most {people want to believe it or not, | WPA was the only thing that pre | vented mob violence from sweeping | the country.” i The director recalled the mobs, armed with shotguns. that defied sheriffs to evict families from their homes because they couldn't get jobs to pay their rent:

~ Loudest Critics Aloof

“The. loudest eritics of WPA were too aloof from those things to really know what was about to happen in this country and they never had to find out the hard way because made-work headed it off,” he said. : “Js $300,000,000 in eight years too much to spend to keep our social | system from: collapsing? : “I think not, considering the hundreds of public buildings and new roads built with WPA labor.” ' Mr. Jennings thinks he holds some kind of all-time record for being investigated by congress. - “There were congressional investigators .all over the place most of the time, governments agents of all kinds checking me up and down for months and months,” he said. “Why, they even tapped my telephone wires and searched records in all corners of the state.” : ¢ ‘He leaned back, gazed out the window of his comfortable office ana smiled. Never Found a Thing

“They never found a single thing wrong.” WPA was started in Indiana in 1935 under an act of congress with a small heginning and grew to enormous proportions until in 1938 more than 105,000 persons were employed on the rolls. 4 As ‘the unemployed were gradually absorbed in war industries, the ‘WPA rolls decreased until last summer only a few hundred were working over the state. President Roosevelt ordered WPA projects stopped as soon after Feb. 1 as possible. “We stopped work in Indiana

‘Iright on the dot although we still

have about $2,000,000 in our budget lasting up to next July,” Mr. Jennings said. ; “I'll never accept another public office,” he said.

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‘PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 (U. P.). Fifteen pretty French-speaking Sudents from the Philadelphia high school for girls waited at the navy league service last night to teach

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ADVISES LIQUOR CLEANUP

Reform or Face Early Prohibition.

™ The state liquor industry was warned from the senate floor today to “clean your dirty linen or we'll have state-wide prohibition two years from now.” The warning was from Senator Charles Phelps, Ft. Wayne Republican, who voted against local option in 1941 and again Saturday when the senate killed the local option bill. : : The issue was raised when a bill to cut in half the amount of bond required by liquor dealers and taverns came up for final passage.

‘Dens of Iniquity’

“Taverns and night clubs have become dens of iniquity—appointment places for prostitutes,” Senator Phelps declared in opposition to the bill. He said he also was warning clubs and lodges that they would have to “stop making bawdy houses out of their premises,” He said He believed the enforcement of the 1941 liquor law by both local officers and the state alcohol beverages commission had “failed.” Senator John Atherton (R. Indianapolis) supported Senator Phelps and declared that the “liquor traffic ought to be regulated.”

Calls Complaints Valid

“It certainly isn’t regulated now,” he said. “The church people and other public spirited citizens have valid complaints.” Senator ‘Atherton’s motion that the bill be brought back to second reading for amendment was adopted by the senate, “Now we can amend the bill to put real teeth in the present law,” he said. “I want to see that the tavern keepers are held responsible for the actions of the people who drink in them.”

HINT WINANT FOR MWNUTT'S POST

Capital Observers = Say Envoy May Head Reor-

ganized Labor Setup.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U, P.).— There was considerable speculation today that if the rising congressional clamor for removal of War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt succeeds, President Roosevelt may ask John G. Winant, ambassador to Great Britain and an outstanding labor authority, to take over the job as secretary of a reorganized labor department. There are plenty of signs that Mr. McNutt’s days as manpower chief are numbered. . Congressmen

did in the case of former Price Administrator Leon Henderson. Resignation of the former Indiana governor probably would result in a reshuffling of several other government departments. Some administration quarters believe that when and if Mr. McNutt is forced out, the shakeup will involve: 1. Transfer of the war manpower commission, the war labor board and the national labor relations board to the labor department. 2. Resignation of McNutt both as WMC chairman and as head of the federal security agency. 3. Resignation of Frances Perkins as secretary of labor to become federal security administrator. 4. Possible. appointment of Mr. Winant as secretary of the new labor department with control over all labor and manpower problems.

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Mr. Winant formerly was head of the international labor office, one of the organizations of the League of Nations which still carries on with headquarters. in Canada. Appointment of Mr. Winant to take over the controversial manpower problem could be expected to receive only favorable reaction from the many factions now pulling and

‘hauling at the loose ends of the

situtaion. The fight for removal of McNutt has been joined in by several congressional groups, including the farm bloc which is dissatisfied with his: handling of the farm labor problem. Other groups are dissatisfied with his handling of the drafting of fathers, his failure to move aggressively against the problem of absenteeism, and his recent “work-in-war-industry-or-fight” order designed to force men of draft age

sential occupations. 48-Hour Week Rules Slow

There also is criticism of MecNutt’'s failure to move quickly to effectuate President Roosevelt's 48hour week order of Feb. 9. The only official word from WMC has been that it will become effective

age areas and within six months thereafter will be extended to 102 others ‘where labor shortages are imminent. : The order, which reliable sources have said caught Mr. McNutt “by surprise,” was issued from the White House while he was en route to Chicago. When he met with the press Feb. 15, Mr. McNutt declined to comment on the order until the regulations implementing it were issued in “two or three-days.” The regulations still have not been made public and WMC spokesmen said they probably would not be before this week-end. Mr. McNutt has suggested that employers wait for the regulations before moving to comply with the order.

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LISBON, Feb. 23 (U. P)—The Pan American airways Yankee clipper, which crashed and sank in the

carried a group of American enter-

tary camps abroad: Jane Frohman, 35, singer, of popular songs on the radio, stage and in cafes, was among those in-

Among other entertainers aboard the plane were (Mr. and Mrs.) Roy and Jean Rognan, dancers known professionally as Lorraine and

accordionist; Grace Drysdale, puppeteer; Elsa Harris Silver, a singer

Swann, a singer. Twenty Bodies Still Sought

Swann were reported among the injured. Their fate was not learned at once. . The entertainers were to have staged united service organizationscamp shows.

of 20 passengers reported to be missing. ' Mailbags already were found and efforts were being made to float the plane. : ‘en

Yvette Swims to Shore

Miss Silver (Yvette) was one of the first of the passengers questioned. #1t happened so quickly that I couldn’t explain what caused it,” she said. “I only know that when the plane hit the water, I succeeded in escaping through the glass roof. I swam toward land and was picked up by people who were on the beach.” ; Some witnesses said the plane exploded as it hit the water. The 20 still missing were believed to have been trapped inside the plane,

Clipper Crash; Jane Froman, Yvette Saved

Tagus river last night with loss of ¥ at least 23 of the 39 passengers and | crew, was revealed today to have |

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POINTS ARE LOW ON DRY BEANS

Dehydrated Soups Given Higher Rating in New OPA Chart.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P.). —Dry beans, dry peas, lentils, and dry and dehydrated scups, which were added to the processed food rationing program late Saturday, will have relatively low point values. Although the new foods were add-

ed to the ration program unexpectedly, OPA officials said that because of the lateness it would not be possible to raise the per person ration

: |lallowance of 48 points for March. If

the supply situation warrants, an additional allowance for those foods for April may be made. The following table shows the

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Jane Froman Five crew members, including the

captain, R. O. D. Sullivan, and two women passengers were among those

men were David Sanders, Robert John Rouvan, W. H. Manning and John Bruner. One of the male passengers rescued was identified as a Mr. Phillips.

NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (U. P.).— Pan American airways officials said today that the Yankee clipper was the first flying boat of its type put into trans-Atlantic service and the first to crash since service was

started on May 1, 1939.

Cuts Off Tongue, Woman Is Dying

DENVER, Colo., Feb. 23 (U. P.). —Mrs. Thelma Jareaw, 38, was near death today after cutting off her tongue because she had “blasphemed the Lord.” : En routé to a hospital in an ambulance, she scrawled this note: | : ; “I love my country, God bless it. But I have blasphemed the Lord and cannot save myself from

‘+ the devil.”

Physicians held little hope for her recovery. .

BRITISH LOSE 2759 BOMBERS

CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (U. P.) —Wilfred Hansford Gallienne, new British consul at Chicago, revealed today that 2759 British bombers were lost in flights over Germany up to Jan. 1. :

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P.). ~—American fliers, striking anew at both ends of the Pacific battle line, raided Kiska in the Aleutians and two Japanese bases in the central

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